L&Q and Countryside Partnerships, a subsidiary of Vistry Group, have obtained planning consent to deliver an additional 947 homes at the derelict site of a former Ford car manufacturing plant in Rainham, Essex.

The new plans are part of the Beam Park regeneration scheme, worth over £1bn. When combined with the two previously completed phases, the development will now deliver 3,947 homes, with half of them designated as affordable housing. 

The initial two phases of Beam Park, situated within the London Borough of Havering, have already seen the delivery of 828 homes.